Saturday, December 13, 2014

Matt Stokes: "Up Close and Personal" De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, NL

Image: Matt Stokes, Jubilee Dancer, 2011, 16mm B/W film with audio, Duration 01:30 minutes, looped (MS0053)
Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK

Up Close and Personal

De Hallen Haarlem

13th December 2014 - 1st March 2015

 

Sven Augustijnen (BE)
Jo Baer (US)
Rosa Barba (IT)
Thierry De Cordier (BE)
Eamonn Harnett (NL)
David Hammons (US)
Dorota Jurczak (PL)
Hassan Khan (UK)
Meiro Koizumi (JP)
Steve McQueen (UK)
George Minne (BE)
Matt Stokes (UK)
Wolfgang Tillmans (DE)
Taocheng Wang (CN)

 

Affect is central to Up Close and Personal. Art has the ability to immediately touch the viewer, a sensation preceding language and thought. This affective power, which cannot easily be described, is increasingly fading into the background in these times dominated by technology, rationalism and efficiency. The artists in Up Close and Personal deal with the theme of 'affect' in various ways, and the intimate (wordless) dialogue between viewer and work takes centre stage.

 

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